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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

But if they aren't actually understanding, then the whole thing is an illusion, and I imagine that is a really uncomfortable thought. So, many people are motivated to try to "disprove" what is just a simple description of what the system does. >>

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To support @womenjournos.bsky.social, please bid on these two vases for our online auction, which happen to be created by mother! Starting bid is at $25 (which is lower than she sells them at craft fairs). Vase 1: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-... Vase 2: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-...

A white vase with a floral design on it.

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@kccclaudia.bsky.social Councilmember, I'm working on understanding Sound Transit's APC system given ridership numbers vary so significantly between methods. Do you know if the 70%+ of light rail rider data from Jan-Oct 2025 being invalid is included in ST's 41% fare evasion estimate?

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How do I give my surgical team feedback that when they put vinyl tape over and around my incision site, twisting it into my large amount of body hair on purpose is NOT something I want. PLEASE! IT TOOK AN HOUR TO TAKE OFF.

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Turns out I really like eating solid foods. Surgery tomorrow morning.

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trans people: "I won't vote for transphobes." Weirdo's: "So... you'll vote for republicans?" This is a) really funny given they didn't listen to a word you said, b) a staggering admission.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Buddy was doing glamour photoshoots in nuthuggers & aviators to make it look like he was tearing down tents with his bare hands. We know he don’t get his hands dirty for any reason. A normal sociopath would pretend to plant a tree. He was throwing out people’s belongings Unforgivable shit.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Art of Persuasion Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1:
A woman and a man sit on a low stone wall in a park. The woman is upset; the man listens.

WOMAN: And now the Democrat in the race is backing some anti-trans laws! I’m not sure I can vote for that.

MAN (thinking): Uh-oh. Democrats need every vote. How can I convince her to vote for the Democrat anyway?

Panel 2:
The woman and man walk through the park, the woman ahead of him.

WOMAN: Of course, the Republican is even worse. But if Democrats turn against trans people… I’m so frightened.

MAN (thinking): I’ve got to be empathetic and persuasive.

Panel 3:
Close-up of the man, looking thoughtful with his hand on his chin.

WOMAN (off-panel): Look at what happened to the UK — they’ve now got two anti-trans parties. If we let that happen here, trans rights are dead.

MAN (thinking): Okay, I think I know how to reassure her and get her vote.

Panel 4:
The man is suddenly furious, leaning toward the startled woman and pointing at her.

MAN: You’re a Trump supporting moron and you deserve to die!

CHICKEN FAT WATCH
PANEL 1:
A good dog with a halo peers out a window. A hand sticks out of a hole in a tree holding a sign that says SEND CANDY.

PANEL 2:
Groucho peeks from behind some bushes. A poster nailed to a tree reads "Background gag to come and it'll be so funny!" A bad rabbit (we know it's bad because it's smoking) sits beside a bad worm (also smoking). A bottle lying in the grass is labeled "BARRY BEER" and has a disturbed-looking drawing of Barry. A mouse holds a knife to a cat; the cat raises its front paws in surrender.

PANEL 4:
A giant mouse (?) in a shirt and tie sits on the wall reading a newspaper, called "Daily Blah Blah," whose headline says "Literate Rodent Escapes Lab."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Firmer stance from now on with my old stance: No engagement with people doing pedantic, obtuse, and/or abstracting gymnastics shit. It's one thing if I'm not being clear or am wrong. It's another to derail the conversation over something trival or unrelated.

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lmao like if she had no point of reference whatsoever... how'd she come up with Cho Chang?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender (I also get multiple)

Twitter screen shot of an project from Alexis Bertulis-Fernades of a dial for dialing down the feminism: options are "complicit in my own dehumanization" and "raging feminist".

Old Pemco insurance ad campaign in the PNW of "First snowflake freakout lady" trading card. Shows a woman over dreessed in snow gear and a snow shovel indoors looking panicked and disoriented looking towards the sky.

Custom Omen longboard with a bear illustration on the underside

Photo of a famous art painting I don't remember the name of behind a callipygian pear to make it look the figure in the painting has a big old prominent donk they're showing off.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 20/09/2026

Ed Sheeran: "This is the most complex political issue on the planet" The issue:

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Alright #AcademicSky #Lingsky, I need your help. My late 2017 refubrished macbook finally kicked the bucket. How do I get something hearty enough for data driven science without paying $40,000 while chips and RAM are doing this shit?

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Kaia Vintr @kaiavintr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Romeo and Juliet except it's two air-gapped misaligned AIs.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No one is demanding you get to the point they have, where they’ve put walking in their past. You are demanding that they align themselves with you, who’s willing to do painful surgery and recovery and therapy for a chance at walking again. You can’t choose that for other people.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Newly disabled people, I say this with love: Two things are true. 1. Your expectations for your life have been disrupted. Maybe permanently. You have the right to take space and grieve that. 2. There is life beyond that disruption. Millions of us are living it.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sigh. Yeah, I am sick of getting lectures on "how it works" from cis bigots whose only understanding of politics is some half-remembered civics classes and binging "The West Wing."

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Petrarca @petrarca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are real people inside your TV, but since the advent of flat screens, they're *really flat.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wait until Will learns that not only to AI companies hide their product's thoughts, but all computers do! They all hide their thoughts and by hide their thoughts I mean encryption and by thoughts I mean programming.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please help boost this evidence of police violence. This is vile racism, heartbreaking and infuriating. #BLM bsky.app/profile/ethi...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/09/2026

> one single missile could kill more people than every cyber attack in history combined. But for some reason, they always just come back to focusing on cyber security. [I]t's because they're just so out of touch that they really cannot imagine harm beyond some computer systems getting hacked.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026

tbh I’d have said this was most German words, which is why it’s German and not some other language

5 German words that don't exist in other
languages

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some jackass dropped a limebike on the tracks from the boeing access road bridge and my Sounder train hit it. Ruptured the battery cell. Took about 25 minutes to check things out but smelled, saw, heard, and felt the shit smacking around below in the first passenger car.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧢💰♿️🏝

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ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴘɪss ᴍᴇ ᴏғғ @chaclo.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

She sent me this and I. AM. CRYYINNGG 🤣

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

At the same time as there is a national debate on whether it’s fair for trans people to play sports we have utterly lost the argument as to whether a Black person with a front facing job is qualified & I can’t believe liberals who entertained both debates don’t see the common denominator here.

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Elim Garak @elimgarak240b.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Same goes for things like the Panama Papers and others that should have been reckonings for powerful men but seemed to disappear after one news cycle.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is actually really good advice. Mine is Topanga because we were both fans of the ABC show growing up.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 06/09/2026

Seattle Crowd Walks Out of Bumbershoot After Investigation Finds Festival Named After Umbrella: tinyurl.com/ev6v6huk

Crowd walking out of Bumbershoot's Seattle Center venue with stage and International Fountain in background.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Walking up to AI developers like "so are you the kind of AI developer who knows they're a fraud or the kind of AI developer who thinks they're a slaver?"

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I submitted a request for Sound Transit's legal documents for how they verify their automatic passenger counter (APC) as compliant to federal standards. It'd be one document for each model maximum. A week after submission, they replied it take 3-4 weeks.

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Nicky (They/Them) @sickynicky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#CriticalRole nerds would you play an adventure where the Changebringer had an unfortunate run in with #theWitchWhoMakesPeopleBald?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had a pretty…egregious experience with a well known journal. They violated blind review, sent to buddies, didn’t accept other reviewers comments etc etc My chair said, “I’ve never seen anything like this. I know these scholars. I don’t know why they would do this??“ I was like, uh, I do.

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tharook @tharook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Screencap from The Simpsons in which Bart Simpson, running for class president, demands more asbestos in the classroom.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A lot of people who refuse to adopt the use of asbestos are going to get burned.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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